On 25 Apr 2016, at 1:33pm, Mark Foley <mfoley at novatec-inc.com> wrote:
> I am using sqlite3 3.7.17 on Linux Slackware64 14.1. I use the sqlite3 > command every 10 minutes to query several Thunderbird calendar databases. > Occasionally, I > have a message, "Error: database is locked"; understandable since Thunderbird > is occasionally updating its database. You may get a better result by adding a timeout before your SELECT: PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000;SELECT <whatever> This allows SQLite to retry the operation for up to 5 seconds before it gives up and returns the above error. Simon.
